Love, Class and Consequence in Wuthering HeightsAt the heart of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, are the characters, Heathcliff and Catherine (Cathy) Earnshaw Linton. Bronte created a love between Cathy and Heathcliff that dared to step outside the normal constraints of the ideal romantic love and social classes of the seemingly proper Victorian England. This class distinction is made early in the novel when Heathcliff is described as “being dark-skinned gipsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman: that is, as much a gentleman as many a country squire…a degree of under-bred pride” (Bronte 7). This description differs to that of Cathy who at the age of eight is referred to as the "lady" of the house after her mother dies only two years after Heathcliff, an orphan, who is brought home to her almost as a gift from her father (Bronte 24-25). While Bronte hints to the readers that the love of these two young people would grow to a love beyond all reasoning for one another, she also shows the reader that as a result of these class differences that Cathy would reject the gypsy to become the wife of a respectable gentleman of a neighboring estate. Unfortunately, it is because of this rejection of love for one another that creates the tragedies and circumstances that affects both Earnshaws, Lintons and Heathcliff throughout Wuthering Heights. Early on in the novel the reader gets a brief glimpse of Heathcliff’s apparent social status by Lockwood, as referenced above, this description is supported by Nelly Dean, the housekeeper at Wuthering Heights. She relays her initial impression on his surprising entrance into the Earnshaw household as "a gypsy brat" speaking in "gibberish" who was literally "picked up" off the streets by Mr. Earnshaw and brought home to be raised with his own children. Heathcliff, the name he was given by Cathy’s father, is also the name of the Earnshaw’s deceased son (Bronte 24). While Heathcliff was expected to become a member of the household, he was never fully accepted by Nelly Dean and Cathy’s brother, Hindley. Hindley felt threatened by Heathcliff and Nelly stated that “Hindley hated him: and to say the truth I did the same; and we plagued and went on with him shamefully" (Bronte 24). Neither Nelly nor Hindley ever lost their dislike for Heathcliff. In Hindley’s case it was not only the threat of losing his inheritance to somebody that didn’t deserve to be a part of his family, but also that his father grew to love Heathcliff more than him. As for Nelly, it was the idea that she should not have to serve somebody that was so close to her in class status. Nevertheless, as time passed, Heathcliff and Cathy grew inseparable even after Mr. Earnshaw dies and Hindley puts Heathcliff back in the class he belongs, as a servant at Wuthering Heights. Still, Cathy "taught him what she learnt" and "they both promised fair to grow up as rude as savages" and their love and passion for one another grew with their maturity (Bronte 28). However, Cathy's love for Heathcliff is not sufficient enough to prevent her from marrying Linton. She puts her love for Heathcliff in these words when speaking to Nelly “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him…but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same” (Bronte 47). Not only is Cathy talking to Nelly about her love for Heathcliff while Nelly is trying to figure out why she loves Edgar, but she also references how marring Heathcliff is beneath her at this point since she has been opened up tot the possibilities of a higher social class such as that of the Lintons. When trying to describe why she loved about Edgar, Cathy is only able to describe the things around and about him but not Edgar himself in this following statement “I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches, and every word he says. I love his looks, and all his actions and him...

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Heathcliff:
Heathcliff becomes a “servant” for a time after
Mr. Earnshaw’s death; he had previously been a
member of the family with equivalent status. The
legal master of the household, Hindley, relegates
Heathcliff to the status of servant and removes him from the house.
’’Poor Heathcliff! Hindley calls him a vagabond, and won't let him sit with us, nor eat with us any more; and, he says, he and I must not play together, and threatens to turn him out of the house if we break his orders. He has been blaming our father (how dared he?) for treating H. too liberally; and swears he will reduce him to his right place.“
Later, when Heathcliff brings back his unexplained fortune, he becomesand aristocrat again (“Mr. Heathcliff”).
’’'Rich, sir!' she returned. 'He has nobody knows what money, and every year it increases. Yes, yes, he's rich enough to live in a finer house than this: but he's very near - close-handed; and, if he had meant to flit to Thrushcross Grange, as soon as he heard of a good tenant he could not have borne to miss the chance of getting a few hundreds more.“
He secures his recovered status by playing upon
Hindley’s weaknesses and cheating him out of the
estate.
’’The guest was now the master of WutheringHeights: he held firm possession, and proved to the attorney - who, in his turn, proved it to Mr. Linton - that Earnshaw had...

...The Love and Hate in WutheringHeights
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Introduction
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1.1 Introduction of the auther
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...Love In WutheringHeights
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Heathcliff means to her. However, Catherine’s obsession with money is as strong as her love for Heathcliff; we see this when she even thinks about leaving Heathcliff for Edgar, solely because Edgar is very wealthy. The fact that she can even think about leaving her childhood love for something like money shows how repulsive her love is. Her...

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Heathcliff's life is marked by wickedness, love, and strength. His dark actions are produced by the distortion of his natural personality. The depiction of him at WutheringHeights is described as a "dirty, ragged, black-haired child" (45). Already he was exposed to hardship and uncomplainingly accepted suffering. He displays his strength and steadfastness when Hindley treats him cruelly. Not only does he show his...

...Title: WutheringHeights
Author: Emily Bronte
Authors Bio: Emily Brontë lived an eccentric, closely guarded life. She was born in 1818, two years after Charlotte and a year and a half before her sister Anne, who also became an author. Her father worked as a church rector, and her aunt, who raised the Brontë children after their mother died, was deeply religious. She died in 1848, at the age of thirty.
Publication Date:
Setting: 1847
Theme: The destructiveness of a love that never changes; the precariousness of social class
Plot Synopsis: In the winter of 1801, a man named Lockwood rents a manor house called Thrushcross Grange in the isolated moor country of England. Here, he meets his dour landlord, Heathcliff, a wealthy man who lives in the ancient manor of WutheringHeights, four miles away from the Grange. In this wild, stormy countryside, Lockwood asks his housekeeper, Nelly Dean, to tell him the story of Heathcliff and the strange denizens of WutheringHeights. Nelly consents, and Lockwood writes down his recollections of her tale in his diary; these written recollections form the main part of WutheringHeights. Nelly remembers her childhood. As a young girl, she works as a servant at WutheringHeights for the owner of the manor, Mr. Earnshaw, and his family. One day, Mr. Earnshaw goes...

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Heathcliff dominates the novel. Ruthless and tyrannical, he represents a new kind of man, free of all restraints and dedicated totally to the satisfaction of his deepest desires no matter what the cost to others or himself. He meets his match in Catherine, who is also his inspiration. Her visionary dreams and bold identification with the powers of storm and wind at WutheringHeights are precisely what make Heathcliff worship her. When Catherine betrays Heathcliff by marrying Ralph Linton, Heathcliff feels she has betrayed the freedom they shared as children on the moor. He exacts a terrible revenge. However, he is no mere Gothic villain. Somehow, the reader sympathizes with this powerful figure who is possessed by his beloved.
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...WutheringHeights
In A Nutshell
Published in 1847, WutheringHeights was the only novel Emily Brontë published, and she died the year after it came out. It is the story of Heathcliff, a dark outsider who falls in love with the feisty Catherine and rages and revenges against every obstacle that prevents him from being with her.
WutheringHeights is violent even by today's standards and is not only full of references to demons, imps of Satan, and ghouls, but also depicts some pretty disturbing scenes of domestic violence. The supernatural plays a large part: ghosts appear, and Heathcliff, characterized more than once as a vampire, refers to drinking blood, haunting, and all manner of paranormal acts.
Though WutheringHeights is considered a classic, the book wasn't always so popular. In fact, when it first came out there was all sorts of confusion about the author, because Brontë published the book under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. Readers thought the book was by the same author who wrote Jane Eyre – which was more immediately embraced by the public because the characters are a lot more likable. Actually Emily's sister Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre under the pseudonym Currer Bell.
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Chapter one introduces the characters Mr Heathcliff, Joseph, Cathy and Mr Lockwood himself. He is currently visiting Yorkshire and is therefore staying at Thurshcross Grange his landlord is Mr Heathcliff who lives at WutheringHeights. Mr Lockwood pays a visit to him and his family where he comes across Joseph, the servant and Cathy whom is the daughter-in-law of Mr Healthcliff. Bronte introduces the characters in different forms. This makes the novel confusing however we soon establish that Bronte writes in this format so the suspension remains throughout the story.
Chapter two gives us a better insight of the family, clearing up the confusion. We discover who Cathy actually is as she comes across as Mr Heathcliffs wife in chapter one we also discover that Cathy actually had a husband, Linton Heathcliff who died. Also in chapter two, the description of the house is revealed and the setting and the kind of atmosphere which is expected from such a household.
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